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... because the discards of these two species had accounted for 43% ofthe overall discards in 1997. The benefits and costs ofthe reduction in discards since 1997 have not been determined. In 2008, the ... ASSESSMENT AND FISHERY EVALUATION REPORT FOR THE GROUNDFISH FISHERIES OFTHE GULF OF ALASKA AND BERING SEA/ALEUTIAN ISLANDS AREA: ECONOMIC STATUS OFTHE GROUNDFISH FISHERIES OFF ALASKA, ... $368 million or 21% ofthe total Alaska ex-vessel value. The value ofthe shellfish fishery amounted to $252 million or 15% ofthe total for Alaska and exceeded the value of Pacific halibut...
... . they canapproach questions systematically and on a grand scale. They can study . . .how tens of thousands of genes and pro-teins work together in interconnectednetworks to orchestrate the ... partic-ularly mention the Language and Culture Archive of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, and the Rosetta Project. The latter is already distributedthrough the Internet Archive and contains materialfor ... published corpora from the LDC, ELRA and dozens of other sources—a total of 85,000 items—are already documented in the combined catalog ofthe Open Language ArchivesCommunity,3so there is no need...
... uncontrollable)with human demands for ecosystem services. The scenarioslink these demands, in turn, to the futures ofthe servicesthemselves andthe aspects ofhuman welfare that dependon them. The scenario ... is one ofthe most innovativeaspects ofthe MA, and this volume presents a synthesis of perspectives from multiple scales on ecosystems, the servicesthey provide, andthe consequences of change ... and resources tomaintain. Unequal access to ecosystem services has oftenelevated the well-being of small segments ofthe populationat the expense of others.Sometimes the consequences of the...
... Synthesis Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: Biodiversity Synthesis Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: Desertification Synthesis Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: Human Health Synthesis Ecosystems and ... Series Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: A Framework for Assessment Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: CurrentStateand Trends, Volume 1 Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: Scenarios, Volume 2 Ecosystems andHuman ... provided by the biosphere and its ecosystems. Further, the biosphere isitself the product of life on Earth. The composition of the atmosphere and soil, the cycling of elements through air and waterways,...
... change the frequency and magnitude of floods, although the nature of this impact depends on the char-acteristics ofthe local ecosystem andthe type of land cover change. The degradation of ecosystem ... specific ecosystemsand regions. Under the aegis ofthe MA, the first systematic examination ofthe status andtrends in terrestrial and coastal land cover was carried out using global and regional ... Island in the United States), but the statistics provided for island systems in this report exclude these islands. Island states, together with their exclusive economic zones, cover 40% of...
... MAweb.org) Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: Synthesis Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: Biodiversity Synthesis Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: Desertification Synthesis Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: Human ... by the Condition andTrends Working Group.Together, the ecosystem services chapters in this volume and inMA CurrentStateandTrends provide a complete overview ofthe current understanding of ... PS The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Series Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: A Framework for Assessment Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: CurrentStateand Trends, Volume 1 Ecosystems and Human...
... product of life onEarth. The composition ofthe atmosphere and soil, the cycling of ele-ments through air and waterways, and many other ecological assets are all the result of living processes and ... Convention on Wetlands plan to use the findings ofthe MA, which will also help meet the needs of others in gov-ernment, the private sector, and civil society. The MA should help toachieve the United ... Government of India, the Tropical Resources EcologyProgram (TREP) ofthe University of Zimbabwe, the Department of Environ-ment and Natural Resources ofthe Philippines, the Coast Information Team of British...
... MAweb.org) Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: Synthesis Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: Biodiversity Synthesis Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: Desertification Synthesis Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: Human ... Series Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: A Framework for Assessment Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: CurrentStateand Trends, Volume 1 Ecosystems andHuman Well-being: Scenarios, Volume 2 Ecosystems ... provided by the biosphere and its ecosystems. Further, the biosphere isitself the product of life on Earth. The composition of the atmosphere and soil, the cycling of elements through air and waterways,...
... Financial Reporting StandardIMF International Monetary Fund44 StateandTrendsofthe Carbon Market 2012SECTION420 StateandTrendsofthe Carbon Market 2012Germany, Poland, andthe United Kingdom ... Estimates of potential supply under the CDM and JI up to 2020 (MtCO2e) 108Table 14: Investment funds and land-use carbon 113 StateandTrendsofthe Carbon Market 2012 1List of abbreviations and ... participants was worsened by the lack of harmonization across the EU over the legal clas-sification of carbon units as a type of property and the absence of a mandate for the European Commission...